Recent development s.v.p. hire at PBS shared mortgage with Kerger

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With PBS under increasing budgetary pressure, President Paula Kerger recently turned to Smithsonian Institution fundraiser Brian Reddington for the important new post of senior v.p. of development and executive director of the PBS Foundation. In January, when she told the PBS Board of Reddington’s selection, she said he was a friend of hers.

Kerger did not mention that she, her husband and Reddington owned a condominium together in New York City from September 2003 to September 2006.

PBS hired Reddington without engaging a search firm or advertising the opening, the network said last week in a statement responding to many but not all of Current’s questions.

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